I don't want a gearbox bike, and they are available if you want one. Heavy and likely to cost more overall... no thanks, I considered it and decided against it.
I as a member of the MTB consuming public just want them to stop killing off old decent products (ie: 9 speed of a decent spec level, I don't want alivio kit)

+1, and we don't need an excessive range of gears like the 14 spd rohloff, a 9 or 10 spd range will be more than enough and make it light, preferbly retrofit so we don't need new frames either, twistgrip or flappy shifters option as well.

A hub build option or gearbox option would be nice. I'm not fussed bout' getting the moon-on-a-stick upgrade but if it's cheap enough then i may decide it's worth it.

Ta, I look forward to this for 2015....i'd be quite happy to be a beta-teser for the 2014 season, email in profile.

Heavy, and all in one lump..
Not home serviceable, unless you're a Tefalhead..
More expensive..
Not as adaptable, ie' 3x.. 2x.. 1x...whatever..
And try and find a whatchamacallit gearbox thrunion widget in the arsehole of nowhere....
If you think about it, the gears we have now are a work of genius, if you set em up properly...

Never snapped a mech hanger, never damaged a mech, proven lightweight tech that works well for it's intended purpose
I've absolutely no need for a lump of weight in the middle of my rear wheel thanks, please continue to make bikes with dérailleurs.
Thanks, the normal people

I've had mechs explode, hangers bend, gears freeze, gears clog with mud. Fit for purpose on road bikes, things that are out getting covered in shit all the time not so much.
Wouldn't want a hub mounted one though, realistically they'd be limited to the DH world for a while I reckon.

I would love a gearbox bike but one of the problems for me is. Unless you pivot around the drive axle them you still need some sort of chain tensioner on an fs. Granted you don't have to have the drive coming from the bb and you can mount your gearbox anywhere in the front triangle so I'm not sure how much of a problem this would be.

As has been mentioned above I am in the process of building a demo bike for the shop around a Pinion gearbox having completed a frame with one for the Bespoked Bristol Show earlier in the year. Pictures of the first one are on our Flickr page here and here.

I must confess that despite being a big fan of 'gears in a box', we don't have a final solution yet. BUT the Pinion is a lot closer than anyone else has got before. The gear range may be wider than a lot of people need, but it wouldn't be any lighter if it had a narrower range. The bike ends up very balanced as the weight is central and low, you end up with a strong rear wheel and (on a hardtail) no issues with the chain coming off. We are still working on a full suspension design and this will be made Pinion compatible by using their tensioner which mounts to the gearbox rather than a mech hanger so you still get very good ground clearance.

I'm not sure if the red and black bike's owner using Singletrack but I'll see if I can prod him for a bit of real world feedback. His bike ended up about 32lbs but we are hoping our demo bike will end up a touch lighter (hopefully sub 30) without going too crazy as we should save a bit in the frame as well as the build.

If anyone has any questions feel free to email matt@18bikes.co.uk or call the shop on 01433 621111. We will update the website/twitter/facebook when the demo bike is complete

Heavy, and all in one lump..
Not home serviceable, unless you're a Tefalhead..
More expensive..
Not as adaptable, ie' 3x.. 2x.. 1x...whatever..
And try and find a whatchamacallit gearbox thrunion widget in the arsehole of nowhere....
If you think about it, the gears we have now are a work of genius, if you set em up properly...

what will happen with "gearbox" bikes is that there will be an expansion of the break down of standards, at the moment, pretty much any mech, cassette and so on, will fit any bike, if companys invest in gearboxes, that will stop, cannot see any company wanting to share their designs

You know what STW, I'm fed up with the lot of you, just when I thought I'd reached my bike satisfaction nirvana another "want" is flashed before my eyes - before I discovered STW I was quite happy with a 7yr old Scott Yecorra ffs, now I will be drooling over 18bikes website for the foreseeable future